CORONERSV INQUESTS
LAST LETTERS OF SUICIDES
PUBLICATION UNDESIRABLE
LONDON, March 1,
In the House of Commons, Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary, announced the appointment of a committee under the chairmanship of Lord Wright to inquire into desirable and practicable changes in the law and practice regarding Coroners' inquests. ,
Mrs. H. B. Tate (C.) asked whether steps. could be taken to prevent the publication of details of Jast letters by suicides except where the Coroner thought it would be of public interest.
• Sir John Gilmour said that this could be left to the Committee. .
The "Lancet" comments 'On the action of the Coroner in reading publicly the letters left by the dv Bois sisters. . -
While agreeing that the letters were material evidence, it says that the Coroner might have given them to the jury privately, or spared the feelings of the living by a more judicious selection of passages read to the public, instancing the passage where one girl said that the aviator to whom she was attached had intended to break off his engagement in order to become engaged to her.
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Evening Post, Issue 52, 2 March 1935, Page 9
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181CORONERSV INQUESTS Evening Post, Issue 52, 2 March 1935, Page 9
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